sup with philly?

[learflyer]

On Saturday night, after a long 8 day tour, I was sitting on my airlines to go home. The FA's shut the door, and I thought we were on our way. So we sat and sat and sat for about 15 minutes. Finally, the captain came on and said: "aaahhh folks I have absolutely no idea why we are still sitting here, and the aircraft isn't being pushed back yet." So I thought to myself: "well atleast it isn't a mechanical, we'll be on our way soon". Wrong. Now, 20 more minutes have passed, and in that time period i'm looking out the window and seeing every other flight getting pushed back but ours!! The captain comes on again: "aahh folks, I have never seen this in my 15 plus years here at Us Airways. I think they forgot about us! We've called our ops center atleast ten times and from what you can see with your own eyeballs, no one has come out!"

Finally after 1 hour, yes 1 hour we were finally pushed pack and on our way! How the heck could this have happened?

Thanks for letting me rant!

Learflyer.

 

[Treme]

Hmm wierd. Just a guess but how about this:

US Airways was so successful in laying-off over 12,000 employees to save money that they figured if they laid them ALL off then they would be instantly profitable?

 

[Dep676]

Cause Philly sucks.

 

[T-Gates]

Philly and Detroit must be sister cities.....

 

[Postflight]

PHL

Welcome to Philadelphia, the work-free drug place of brotherly love!

 

[Timebuilder]

As you saw, the problem wasn't "Philly". If it was, others would not be moving.

A lot of PO'd people are as US Air right now. I know some. Talk to a flight attendant recently? Are they still working?

The advent of Southwest service at PHL is very bad for US Air. I can't say that the layoffs and the pressure on US are directly responsible for your delay; that would be foolish. I CAN say that this kind of gloom hurts everyone's performance, though.

I have spent a LOT of time at PHL. Then again, I never needed a pushback!!!

 

[Dash8]

pushback delays at phl are frequent problems....
the gates are divided into zones(at least in the f terminal), and NO ONE will go out of their zone even if their doing absolutely nothing, to help a stuck flight if theres no guys in that zone or they're caught up someplace else
and of course super sh1tty work ethics in the area too,
i hate phl, it's with out a doubt the worst airport in our entire system (usairways)
i tell everyone i know to avoid phl in their travel plans like the plague (thats if they have to fly usairways to get somewhere)

don't think i've ever sat an hour waiting for pushback, i've waited as much as i think 20 minutes after dep time for a push, and upwards of 15min waiting to get wanded into a gate, just a nightmare there...

 

[blueridge71]

I think it the Philly attitude. United personnel there have always been on marginally better than what was decribed here.

 

[Timebuilder]

Being hired to work at the airport is all about what your face looks like, and who you know.

The mayor's brother runs the airport, and their idea of employment management is is to hire as many people who fit their idea of the "right" kind of worker.